With Mac The Ripper I extracted every single title of the DVD, giving me several VOB files, one for each title. These VOB files can't be used for authoring a new DVD so we need to process them a bit more

With ffmpegX I converted the VOB files to a DVD. This will do a bit more work than actually required. I simply need the .mpg file which is created in between, but I couldn't figure out how to achieve that. After this step you will have an .mpg file and a DVD directory for each title. Trash the DVD directory

With dvdauthor one can now create the DVD structure one wants.
An example. Create a file "dvdstructure.xml" like this:

If you look carefully at this example, you will recognize the structure you know from using myDVDEdit.

the <titleset> is the "VTS #" from myDVDEdit. <menus> is the "VTS Menu #" and <titles> the "VTS #".

The <pgc>s are also known from myDVDEdit and the <post> is a pgc's "Post cmds" tab. In this case each title will link to the next title and the last one to the title menu.

Be warned: This is NOT a full featured DVD structure. You need to either add something more to it (which goes beyond my knowledge) or you need to postprocess the resulting output with myDVDEdit (like I do).

In the terminal enter

Code:

dvdauthor -o myDVD -x dvdstructure.xml

and it will create a myDVD Folder containing the usual VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders.

I hope this short instruction is helpful for some of you._________________Please bear with me if I occasionally swap z and y. At home I have a german keyboard and at work I have to use an american/uk one.